Alice Duer Miller said this quote

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.

~ Alice Duer Miller

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

~ Alice Duer Miller

We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too,But very human beings, human just as much as you.It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublimeWhen you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

~ Alice Duer Miller

Mother, what is a Feminist?A feminist, my daughter,Is any woman now who caresTo think about her own affairsAs men don't think she oughter.

~ Alice Duer Miller